A two weeks old baby, George E. Barnes Jr., was crushed to death Saturday night beneath an automobile which, driven by his father, who state highway patrolmen say was drunk, careened off the road and overturned in a ploughed field on Route 72 near Ebenezer. In addition two other children of the driver, Florence and John, suffered minor lacerations and were treated at the Good Samaritan hospital. Mrs. Barnes and three other children, Mary, 12, Raymond and Robert, the latter 14, and Barnes himself escaped uninjured. The Barnes family reside at Bunker Hill.
Immediately following the crash Corporal S. Sheaffer and Patrolman Francis Bonnenberger, of the state highway patrol investigated and arrested Barnes on a charge of drunken driving. He was later released on the recognizance of a clergyman to await a hearing. Patrolman report that the baby had been lying in his mother's lap when the car careened off the highway. The child was tossed through a window and caught under a door of the machine as it upset. The infant's head was crushed. The baby was rushed to the Good Samaritan hospital, but died one hour after admittance. Barnes is said to be a World War veteran who recently received his bonus with which, it is alleged, he bought the death car. The child was buried at 9:30 o'clock this morning in the Bunker Hill Evangelical cemetery with the Strauss funeral home in charge of arrangements. Besides the parents the child leaves to survive the grandmother, Mrs. John Barnes, of the Bronx, New York. The following brothers and sisters survive: Catherine, of Norristown; Mary, Florence, Robert, John and Raymond, at home. [Lebanon Daily News, Monday May 7, 1934]
Immediately following the crash Corporal S. Sheaffer and Patrolman Francis Bonnenberger, of the state highway patrol investigated and arrested Barnes on a charge of drunken driving. He was later released on the recognizance of a clergyman to await a hearing. Patrolman report that the baby had been lying in his mother's lap when the car careened off the highway. The child was tossed through a window and caught under a door of the machine as it upset. The infant's head was crushed. The baby was rushed to the Good Samaritan hospital, but died one hour after admittance. Barnes is said to be a World War veteran who recently received his bonus with which, it is alleged, he bought the death car. The child was buried at 9:30 o'clock this morning in the Bunker Hill Evangelical cemetery with the Strauss funeral home in charge of arrangements. Besides the parents the child leaves to survive the grandmother, Mrs. John Barnes, of the Bronx, New York. The following brothers and sisters survive: Catherine, of Norristown; Mary, Florence, Robert, John and Raymond, at home. [Lebanon Daily News, Monday May 7, 1934]
A two weeks old baby, George E. Barnes Jr., was crushed to death Saturday night beneath an automobile which, driven by his father, who state highway patrolmen say was drunk, careened off the road and overturned in a ploughed field on Route 72 near Ebenezer. In addition two other children of the driver, Florence and John, suffered minor lacerations and were treated at the Good Samaritan hospital. Mrs. Barnes and three other children, Mary, 12, Raymond and Robert, the latter 14, and Barnes himself escaped uninjured. The Barnes family reside at Bunker Hill.
Immediately following the crash Corporal S. Sheaffer and Patrolman Francis Bonnenberger, of the state highway patrol investigated and arrested Barnes on a charge of drunken driving. He was later released on the recognizance of a clergyman to await a hearing. Patrolman report that the baby had been lying in his mother's lap when the car careened off the highway. The child was tossed through a window and caught under a door of the machine as it upset. The infant's head was crushed. The baby was rushed to the Good Samaritan hospital, but died one hour after admittance. Barnes is said to be a World War veteran who recently received his bonus with which, it is alleged, he bought the death car. The child was buried at 9:30 o'clock this morning in the Bunker Hill Evangelical cemetery with the Strauss funeral home in charge of arrangements. Besides the parents the child leaves to survive the grandmother, Mrs. John Barnes, of the Bronx, New York. The following brothers and sisters survive: Catherine, of Norristown; Mary, Florence, Robert, John and Raymond, at home. [Lebanon Daily News, Monday May 7, 1934]
Immediately following the crash Corporal S. Sheaffer and Patrolman Francis Bonnenberger, of the state highway patrol investigated and arrested Barnes on a charge of drunken driving. He was later released on the recognizance of a clergyman to await a hearing. Patrolman report that the baby had been lying in his mother's lap when the car careened off the highway. The child was tossed through a window and caught under a door of the machine as it upset. The infant's head was crushed. The baby was rushed to the Good Samaritan hospital, but died one hour after admittance. Barnes is said to be a World War veteran who recently received his bonus with which, it is alleged, he bought the death car. The child was buried at 9:30 o'clock this morning in the Bunker Hill Evangelical cemetery with the Strauss funeral home in charge of arrangements. Besides the parents the child leaves to survive the grandmother, Mrs. John Barnes, of the Bronx, New York. The following brothers and sisters survive: Catherine, of Norristown; Mary, Florence, Robert, John and Raymond, at home. [Lebanon Daily News, Monday May 7, 1934]
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